John Dingell

John David Dingell Jr. (8 July 1926-7 February 2019) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MI 15) from 1955 to 1965 (succeeding John Dingell Sr. and preceding William D. Ford), from MI-16 from 1965 to 2003 (succeeding John Lesinski Jr.), from MI-15 again from 2003 to 2013 (succeeding Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick), and from MI-12 from 2013 to 2015 (succeeding Sander Levin and preceding Debbie Dingell).

Biography
John Dingell was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1926, the son of John Dingell Sr.. The family later returned to Michigan, and Dingell would serve as a page for the US House of Representatives from 1938 to 1943. He served in the US Army during World War II, and he went on to become a lawyer in 1952 and served as prosecuting attorney for Wayne County until 1955, when he was elected to the US Congress following his father's death. Dingell was re-elected 29 times, and he was unopposed in 1988 and 2006. He was a moderate liberal who supported organized labor, social welfare, and traditional progressive policies, but he supported the Vietnam War until 1971, opposed mandatory busing in Detroit, held a moderate position on abortion, and was strongly opposed to gun control. He was instrumental in the passage of the Medicare Act, the Water Quality Act of 1965, the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Clean Air Act of 1990, the Affordable Care Act, and many other laws, and he was most proud of his work on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He decided to retire in 2014, and his wife Debbie Dingell succeeded him in Congress. He died in Dearborn, Michigan in 2019 at the age of 92.